Tengu Zoushi

A seven-volume picture scroll from the Kamakura period. It satirizes the tyranny and arrogance of the monks of the great temples of the northern and southern parts of Japan, as well as the strange behavior of the new religious movements of the Jodo and Jishu sects, using seven types of Tengu as examples. It is a unique work that vividly illustrates the dissatisfaction with the religious world of the time through pictures. In addition to the Enryakuji and Toji scrolls (both in the Tokyo National Museum), the Onjoji scroll (owned by the Miyamoto family), the Miidera scroll known as the Jodo Mountain Recluse Scroll (formerly owned by the Hisamatsu family) and the Various Tengu Enlightenment Scroll (Nezu Museum, Tokyo), copies of the two scrolls, the Kofukuji and Todaiji scrolls (both in the Tokyo National Museum), have been handed down. Compared to the other five scrolls, the two Miidera scrolls are more interesting both as a tale and as a source of performing arts material. The preface to the Kofuku-ji scroll also contains the motive for its creation, along with the date "October 6, 1296 (Einin 4)," which gives us information about the time of its creation. The entire scroll is a single stroke, and the painting uses graceful brushwork and gorgeous colors, conveying the authentic lineage of Yamato-e painting from the Kamakura period.

[Yasushi Murashige]

"Shigemi Komatsu (ed.), "Continuation of Japanese Picture Scrolls 19: Tengu Zoushi and Others" (1984, Chuokoron-Shinsha)

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鎌倉時代の絵巻。七巻。南都北嶺(ほくれい)の諸大寺における僧徒の横暴と驕慢(きょうまん)ぶり、および浄土宗、時宗という新興宗教の異様なふるまいなどを七類の天狗に例えて風刺、当時の宗教界に対する不満を絵をもって如実に示した異色の作品。延暦寺(えんりゃくじ)巻、東寺(とうじ)巻（ともに東京国立博物館）、園城寺(おんじょうじ)巻（宮本家蔵）、伝三井寺(みいでら)巻とよばれる浄土山臥遁世(やまぶしとんせい)巻（久松家旧蔵）および諸天狗成仏巻（東京・根津美術館）のほか、興福寺巻、東大寺巻の二巻の模本（ともに東京国立博物館）が伝わる。伝三井寺の二巻は他の五巻に比して説話としても芸能資料としても興味深い。また興福寺巻の序文にはこれらの制作の動機とともに「永仁(えいにん)四年（1296）十月六日」の年紀が記されており、制作時期を知ることができる。全巻一筆からなり、絵は暢達(ちょうたつ)な運筆と華麗な色彩を用い、鎌倉時代の大和(やまと)絵の正系を伝える。

［村重　寧］

『小松茂美編『続日本絵巻大成19　天狗草紙他』（1984・中央公論社）』

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